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Top 10 takeaways from Sunday’s Week 4 NFL action

Courtesy of Matt Kartozian, USA Today Sports

The “St. Louis Jekyll and Hyde’s”

Courtesy of USA Today Sports: It's been years since Fisher has sniffed the playoffs.

Courtesy of USA Today Sports: It’s been years since Fisher has sniffed the playoffs.

Beat the Seattle Seahawks. Lose two consecutive games, one to the Washington Redskins. Then, go into Arizona and beat a previously undefeated Cardinals team. This type of inconsistency has been a major issue for the St. Louis Rams under Jeff Fisher.

Remember the little blurb we wrote following the Rams Week 1 win over Seattle? It went a little something like this. St. Louis found a way to defeat Seattle and the Denver Broncos while losing to Kansas City and the Arizona Cardinals, all in a one-month span last season. Overall, the Rams are 4-4 against the NFC West and 4-8 against the rest of the NFL since the start of the 2014 campaign.

This Sunday, the good version of Fisher’s squad showed up. Seeing his first significant time, rookie running back Todd Gurley put up 146 yards on 19 attempts for a ridiculous 7.7 yards per attempt average. Meanwhile, Nick Foles completed 16-of-24 passes for 171 yards with three touchdowns and no picks.

It was a crisp performance from a Rams squad that won the turnover battle by three. With this team’s defense, and what is quickly becoming a solid running game, there is no reason St. Louis can’t compete for a playoff spot in the NFC. However, it’s going to be all about achieving a level of consistency we haven’t seen thus far under Fisher.

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